cmd/go: Setting up a go workspace breaks building

[alvaroaleman]

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ go version
go version go1.19.4 darwin/arm64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

yes

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

go env Output

$ go env|sed "s/$REPO_NAME/REPO_NAME/"
GO111MODULE=""
GOARCH="arm64"
GOBIN=""
GOCACHE="/Users/aaleman/Library/Caches/go-build"
GOENV="/Users/aaleman/Library/Application Support/go/env"
GOEXE=""
GOEXPERIMENT=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="arm64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOINSECURE=""
GOMODCACHE="/Users/aaleman/git/go/1.19.4/pkg/mod"
GONOPROXY="github.com/confluentinc/*"
GONOSUMDB="github.com/confluentinc/*"
GOOS="darwin"
GOPATH="/Users/aaleman/git/go/1.19.4"
GOPRIVATE="github.com/confluentinc/*"
GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"
GOROOT="/Users/aaleman/.goenv/versions/1.19.4"
GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/Users/aaleman/.goenv/versions/1.19.4/pkg/tool/darwin_arm64"
GOVCS=""
GOVERSION="go1.19.4"
GCCGO="gccgo"
AR="ar"
CC="clang"
CXX="clang++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
GOMOD="/Users/aaleman/git/go/src/github.com/confluentinc/REPO_NAME/utils/go.mod"
GOWORK="/Users/aaleman/git/go/src/github.com/confluentinc/REPO_NAME/go.work"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -arch arm64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/var/folders/lv/c7vdlcfn48nb7kyzwl2gdxd40000gp/T/go-build2888291828=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common"

What did you do?

Added a go.work to a many-modules repository by executing go work init, go work use -r ./ at the root of the repository.
Then tried building one of the modules and it failed:

$ go build ./utils/... 2>&1|sed "s/$REPO_NAME/REPO_NAME/"
../../../../1.19.4/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/tools@v0.2.0/go/packages/external.go:15:2: no required module provides package golang.org/x/sys/execabs; to add it:
	cd /Users/aaleman/git/go/src/github.com/confluentinc/REPO_NAME/utils
	go get golang.org/x/sys/execabs

executing the suggested command upgrades that module but that doesn't change anything about the issue:

$ cd utils && go get golang.org/x/sys/execabs && go build ./...
go: upgraded golang.org/x/sys v0.2.0 => v0.4.0
../../../../../1.19.4/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/tools@v0.2.0/go/packages/external.go:15:2: no required module provides package golang.org/x/sys/execabs; to add it:
	go get golang.org/x/sys/execabs

That is what is in go.mod and go.sum regarding golang.org/x/sys:

$ rg golang.org/x/sys go.*
go.mod:	golang.org/x/sys v0.2.0 // indirect
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20170830134202-bb24a47a89ea/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20180823144017-11551d06cbcc/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20180830151530-49385e6e1522/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20180905080454-ebe1bf3edb33/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20180909124046-d0be0721c37e/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20181026203630-95b1ffbd15a5/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20181107165924-66b7b1311ac8/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20181116152217-5ac8a444bdc5/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20181205085412-a5c9d58dba9a/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190209173611-3b5209105503/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190215142949-d0b11bdaac8a/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190312061237-fead79001313/go.mod h1:h1NjWce9XRLGQEsW7wpKNCjG9DtNlClVuFLEZdDNbEs=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190321052220-f7bb7a8bee54/go.mod h1:h1NjWce9XRLGQEsW7wpKNCjG9DtNlClVuFLEZdDNbEs=
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go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190422165155-953cdadca894/go.mod h1:h1NjWce9XRLGQEsW7wpKNCjG9DtNlClVuFLEZdDNbEs=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190502145724-3ef323f4f1fd/go.mod h1:h1NjWce9XRLGQEsW7wpKNCjG9DtNlClVuFLEZdDNbEs=
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go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190606165138-5da285871e9c/go.mod h1:h1NjWce9XRLGQEsW7wpKNCjG9DtNlClVuFLEZdDNbEs=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190616124812-15dcb6c0061f/go.mod h1:h1NjWce9XRLGQEsW7wpKNCjG9DtNlClVuFLEZdDNbEs=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190624142023-c5567b49c5d0/go.mod h1:h1NjWce9XRLGQEsW7wpKNCjG9DtNlClVuFLEZdDNbEs=
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go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20191120155948-bd437916bb0e/go.mod h1:h1NjWce9XRLGQEsW7wpKNCjG9DtNlClVuFLEZdDNbEs=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20191204072324-ce4227a45e2e/go.mod h1:h1NjWce9XRLGQEsW7wpKNCjG9DtNlClVuFLEZdDNbEs=
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go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20210927094055-39ccf1dd6fa6/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBck5+mAzfO9JrbApNNgaTdGDITg=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20220114195835-da31bd327af9/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBck5+mAzfO9JrbApNNgaTdGDITg=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20220412211240-33da011f77ad/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBck5+mAzfO9JrbApNNgaTdGDITg=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20220503163025-988cb79eb6c6/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBck5+mAzfO9JrbApNNgaTdGDITg=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20220520151302-bc2c85ada10a/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBck5+mAzfO9JrbApNNgaTdGDITg=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20220722155257-8c9f86f7a55f/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBck5+mAzfO9JrbApNNgaTdGDITg=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20220811171246-fbc7d0a398ab/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBck5+mAzfO9JrbApNNgaTdGDITg=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.1.0/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBck5+mAzfO9JrbApNNgaTdGDITg=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.2.0 h1:ljd4t30dBnAvMZaQCevtY0xLLD0A+bRZXbgLMLU1F/A=
go.sum:golang.org/x/sys v0.2.0/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBck5+mAzfO9JrbApNNgaTdGDITg=

And this is the output of go mod why for that module:

go mod why golang.org/x/sys/execabs|sed "s/$REPO_NAME/REPO_NAME/"
# golang.org/x/sys/execabs
github.com/confluentinc/REPO_NAME/utils/pkg/test
sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools/pkg/genall
golang.org/x/tools/go/packages
golang.org/x/sys/execabs

What did you expect to see?

A successful build, just like it works when not having a go.work file

What did you see instead?

../../../../../1.19.4/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/tools@v0.2.0/go/packages/external.go:15:2: no required module provides package golang.org/x/sys/execabs; to add it:
	go get golang.org/x/sys/execabs

Unfortunately this is a private repo, so I can not link to it. I am happy to provide any additional details that would help.

[bcmills]

Do any of the modules in your workspace use replace directives?

Does your workspace include its own version of the golang.org/x/tools or golang.org/x/sys module?

golang.org/x/tools@v0.2.0 requires golang.org/x/sys@v0.1.0, and every version of x/sys at v0.1.0 and later does provide execabs.

[alvaroaleman]

Do any of the modules in your workspace use replace directives?

Yes, as this is one repository with many modules they replace each other with relative parts if imported, i.E. the one that doesn't build anymore has one replace directive that goes something like repo_name/othermodule => ../othermodule.
othermodule doesn't use golang.org/x/tools.

Does your workspace include its own version of the golang.org/x/tools or golang.org/x/sys module?

We don't replace it nor do we have a vendor dir if that is what you mean.

According to the go mod why output above, it seems to be used because of https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools/blob/54a2e9f1ac63927545179bb8cd82aff15540a418/pkg/genall/genall.go#L26 . That project doesn't replace it either.

Since everything works perfectly fine when not using go.work it seems that adding that somehow changes dependency resolution. I tried to generate a diff using go mod graph from the module dir but the version without go.work is 5k lines, the one with it is 26k lines big and the diff of the two is 30k lines so I doubt that this will be very useful. Is there a better way to diff what might be different?

[bcmills]

What does go list -m golang.org/x/sys report?

[alvaroaleman]

What does go list -m golang.org/x/sys report?

This is different, on the branch with the go.work file it reports golang.org/x/sys v0.2.0 => golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20180810173357-98c5dad5d1a0, without the go.work file it is golang.org/x/sys v0.2.0.

I searched for that git sha and found that there is another module that does a replace golang.org/x/sys => golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20180810173357-98c5dad5d1a0. It gets auto-updated into our repo, that is why I didn't see that earlier, sorry about that.

Removing this module from go.work happens to be fine in this case, as it is some ci-tooling which as mentioned gets auto-updated into the repo and is managed elsewhere.

Replace directives getting propagated from one module to the other when they don't import each other seems surprising to me, is this intentional? It somewhat defeats the purpose of having the multiple modules in the first place as the purpose of that was to be able to have different versions of dependencies.

[bcmills]

The workspace intentionally applies all of the replace directives from the modules contained within the workspace.

It somewhat defeats the purpose of having the multiple modules in the first place as the purpose of that was to be able to have different versions of dependencies.

By design, a workspace can have only one set of consistent dependencies. (If you want to work with the dependencies of each module separately, don't combine them in a workspace.)

[alvaroaleman]

By design, a workspace can have only one set of consistent dependencies

I agree on that, I guess I would have expected a go build in the module subdirectory of the workspace to not use the workspace set of dependencies but the ones from the module.

Thanks a lot for your help, really appreciate it!